Maintaining and Strengthening Institutional Capacity of Maputo City Province Health Directorate in Mozambique under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) | CDC RFA GH21 2156

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This grant opportunity, titled "Maintaining and Strengthening Institutional Capacity of Maputo City Province Health Directorate in Mozambique under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)," is a CDC-funded cooperative agreement designed to strengthen how Maputo City Health, formally the Servico de Saude da Cidade de Maputo (SSC), manages and leads the citywide HIV response. The central aim is not to directly deliver a stand-alone set of clinical services, but to build and reinforce the institutional systems, leadership, and coordination functions that allow the local health authority to more effectively design, plan, oversee, and align HIV prevention, care, support, and treatment activities across Maputo City under PEPFAR.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), numbered CDC RFA GH21 2156, sits under the health funding activity category and is tied to CFDA 93.067. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically means CDC expects to have substantial involvement in the work alongside the recipient, such as collaborating on implementation approaches, monitoring, and technical direction as the project progresses. The opportunity anticipated making a single award (Expected Awards: 1), emphasizing a centralized effort to support coordination and institutional capacity rather than multiple parallel awards.

In terms of funding, the listing notes an Award Ceiling for Year 1 of 0 (none), while also stating that CDC anticipated approximately $350,000 in total fiscal year funding for Year 1, contingent on the availability of funds. In practice, that combination signals that applicants should not rely on a published upper limit for the first-year award amount, but CDC still expected to allocate around the stated figure for the initial year if funds were available. The focus remains on enabling SSC/Maputo City Health to function more effectively as the lead coordinating body for HIV programming, rather than funding a large-scale service expansion.

Programmatically, the NOFO targets several connected capacity-building outcomes. First, it seeks to strengthen SSC's ability to develop, plan, and coordinate the HIV program across Maputo City, which typically involves improving planning processes, clarifying roles and responsibilities, strengthening coordination structures, and enhancing the ability to track progress and respond to gaps. Second, it aims to reinforce leadership oversight and coordination of PEPFAR-supported HIV prevention, care, support, and treatment services, which implies improving governance and management practices so that the city health authority can better direct and align partner activities with local priorities and PEPFAR goals. Third, it explicitly promotes collaboration among PEPFAR implementing partners and other key stakeholders engaged in HIV service delivery in Maputo City. The intent is to reduce fragmentation, improve how service delivery models function on the ground, and ultimately strengthen the broader health system by making coordination more consistent, more strategic, and more accountable.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under CDC's Center for Global Health. The posting date (Creation Date) was February 18, 2021, and the original application deadline was April 19, 2021, with electronically submitted applications due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date. Eligibility is listed as "Others," with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement text, indicating that applicants needed to consult the complete NOFO to confirm whether they qualified and under what conditions.

Overall, this opportunity is best understood as an investment in management capacity and partner coordination for Maputo City's HIV program under PEPFAR. By strengthening institutional leadership and improving collaboration across implementing partners and stakeholders, the NOFO aims to improve how HIV services are organized and delivered citywide, while also contributing to more resilient local health system functions that support sustained HIV outcomes over time.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - CGH in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Maintaining and Strengthening Institutional Capacity of Maputo City Province Health Directorate in Mozambique under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.067.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 18, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 19, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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